Gonna pick on Lanse for a minute here. Thanks in advance for being a good sport.
In Lanse's videos he advocates peening cast welds to relieve the stresses as the weld cools. He then uses a relatively SHARP instrument to hack away at his welds.
Aren't you supposed to use the ball end of a ball peen hammer for this job?
I would think a round blunt instrument would be the tool of choice for this process. When you go after it with the point of your chipping hammer you end up with something that looks like it was attacked by a woodpecker on bath salts! The sharp poke holes can't be good for the overall strength of the weld.
In Lanse's videos he advocates peening cast welds to relieve the stresses as the weld cools. He then uses a relatively SHARP instrument to hack away at his welds.
Aren't you supposed to use the ball end of a ball peen hammer for this job?
I would think a round blunt instrument would be the tool of choice for this process. When you go after it with the point of your chipping hammer you end up with something that looks like it was attacked by a woodpecker on bath salts! The sharp poke holes can't be good for the overall strength of the weld.